Michel william mahar



M. W. MAHAR.

COMBINED BULLETIN BOARD AND BROOM HOLDER.

(No Model.)

No. 397,465. Patented'Feb. 5, 1889.

llniTnn @TATES PATENT Orricn.

MICHEL WILLIAM MAIIAB, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGERENTZ, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED BULLETIN-BOARD AND BROOM-=HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,465, dated February5, 1889. Application filed May 3, 1888. Serial No. 272,709, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MICHEL \VILLIAM MA- HAR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Dayton, in the county of Mont-gomer 7 andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCombined Bulletin -l3oards and Broom-I-Iolders; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will .enable othersskilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to combined bulletinboards and broom-holders.

The object is to produce a device which shall be of such constructionthat it may be used as a combined bllllGllllblJOitlCl, broomsupport, anda frame upon which to hang various articles, or as bulletin-board orbroomsnpport alone; furthermore, to produce a device which may bereadily folded together to occupy a small space and to facilitate its being moved from one point to another; and, finally, to produce a devicewhich shall be simple of construction, efficient and durable in use, andcomparatively inexpensive of production.

\Vith these objects in view, the invention consists in a frame providedwith suitable openings in which to place the brooms lo be exhibited, thesaid frame beingalso provided with hooks upon which to exhibit variousarticles of merchandise; furthermore, in the coml, ination, with theframe havin suitalide openings to hold brooms or other such articles,and hooks for exhibiting various artt cles of merchandise, of abulletin-board or of lar view of a slightly modified form, and Fig. 3 isan end view of the device folded.

A denotes the frames, which are hinged together. Each of these framesconsists of the two uprights B and the cross-picces C, which are formedwith registering apoitures E, through which the handles of the broomsare inserted, and to each of these frames, at the intermediate portionthereof, are secured brackets E, which support a shelf, G, forhold ingbuckets, boxes, and the like. These shelves are recessed upon their rearedges, as shown at H, and in which recesses fit and are secured thelower ends of the bulletin-boards I, supported at their rear by posts J,which are secured thereto, and which are provided attheir upper endswith apertured cross pieces, through the apertures of which the handlesof small brooms or the handles of dust-brushes are adapted to beinserted. The bulletin-board may have the name and address of the firm7o printed upon it, in front of whose store the device is placed, andbeneath the name and address the articles exhibited, and their costs mayalso be printed. Hooks K are secured to the frames at any suitablepoints, and are adapted to hold various articles of mercha11- disc; andL denotes a connecting-rod formed wit-h eyes at each end, one of saideyes being pivoted to a scremeye in one of the frames, and connectedremovably with its other eye to a hook, M, in the other frame. By meansof this connecting-rod it will be seen that the frames when in use areheld firmly apart at angles to each other.

The modificationherein referred to consists simply in extending theuprights and connecting them by a top cross-piece, N, formed withapertures, through which the handles of small brooms are inserted in thesame manner as the short top pieces hereinbefore mentioned. Thisconstruction I may prefer to adopt without departing from the spirit ofmy in'ventimi.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States A combined bulletin board andbroomholder consisting of two frames hinged tog'ether, the cross-piecesof which are apering-rod formed with eyes at each end adapted turecl toreceive the handles of the brooms, a to engage the hook and the eye ofthe crossshel'f upon the front of each frame, a post sepieces,substantially as set forth. cured to the frame, and each post having; anIn testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 apertnred cross-piece atits top, vertical bullemy own I have hereunto it'lllXGAl my signature I5tin-boards secured to said frames, brackets, in presence of twowitnesses.

and posts, a hook secured in the rear edge of MICHEL 'WILLIAM MAHAR. oneof the cross-pieces of one of the frames, \Vltnessei: and an eye securedin the rear edge of the H. H. SAG-E,

1o cross-piece of the other frame, and a connect- 1 TIM. MGENTEE.

